Micah Otim's dedication

A few weeks ago, we had the privilege of dedicating Micah David Otim Rattin to the Lord with our local church in Gulu.

Pastor Peter, our dear faithful friend (and ACTION Gulu leader), prayed over our son as we asked God to help us raise him in a faithful way and asked the church body to hold us accountable and help us to raise him in the Lord. We hold submission to a local church body in high esteem, as an integral part of God's call for each Christian, and we are so thankful to be able to submit to Pastor Peter's leadership in our lives. Please pray for our church and for Pastor Peter!

The congregation was so pleased to meet Micah Otim for the first time and thrilled that he has an Acholi name. Since the name Micah is apparently pronounced MEEEE-kah here (I'm not thrilled about that pronunciation!), he'll most often go by Otim. Plus, it gives us an opening with strangers right away as they want to know more about the child born away from home. Home is wherever you are originally from - so in our case, it's the USA or where our parents live. This week of his dedication, Micah was was four weeks old.

(The skillful keyboardist merrily played Jingle Bells during the solemn prayer of dedication... only in Africa!)

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